Flyers top Penguins for 2-0 series lead

10:20 PM,
Apr. 13, 2012

Philadelphia Flyers' Maxime Talbot (27) celebrates his first-period goal with teammate Claude Giroux (28) during Game 2 of an opening-round NHL playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh Friday.

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RANDY MILLER
Courier-Post

It made perfect sense that it was Jaromir Jagr putting a stake to the Penguins heart, perfect sense that his stick snapped in two on the follow-through on his shot that turned a crazy game one last time.

This was wild and crazy and filled with goals scored at the very beginning and very end of periods, power-play goals and short-handed ones, blown leads, great saves, super games from superstars and 19-year-old rookie Sean Couturier adding the icing with 1:49 to go, his third goal of the night in just his second playoff game.

The biggest hero was Jagr, an all-time great who still has some game at age ...